Nearly two dozen lead prosecutors in Maryland have lined up to oppose a new trial for Adnan Syed, the Baltimore County man at the center of the popular 2014 podcast, "Serial."

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The Maryland attorney general’s office is appealing a new trial for Syed, who was convicted in the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, a student at Woodlawn High School.

Now, 21 state’s attorneys from Allegany County to Worcester County have filed a friend of the court brief, which is made by someone not a party to the case. Over the summer, a Baltimore judge vacated Syed’s conviction and ordered a new trial.

In the brief filed with the Court of Special Appeal in Annapolis, the prosecutors said the lower court made a mistake saying, "The sensationalized attention surrounding this case fueled by supporters of a convicted murderer and left unanswered by a grieving family who has asked that their privacy be respected should not bear on the just and proper resolution of this appeal."

The prosecutors added that Syed was convicted by a jury of his peers on crushing evidence of his guilt.

The state’s attorneys from Baltimore County and Baltimore City did not join in the friend of the court brief because Lee’s death occurred in the county and her body was found in the city.